Databases
News and features about the legal profession including the people and management issues shaping the legal field.
The Aspen Learning Library consists of digital study aids with full text search, note-taking, and highlighting capabilities, audio recordings, and video format learning experiences to enhance student understanding of difficult legal concepts. Included are Emanuel Law Outlines, Glannon Guides, Casenote Legal Briefs, Inside Series, Friedman’s Practice Series, and Emanuel CrunchTime.
Campus and off-campus with NetID
Bloomberg Law provides electronic access to legal materials along with news and company information. This service also provides access to federal and selected state court dockets and filings, in addition to a full complement of BNA online resources.
UT Law only (password required)
RIA’s online tax and accounting databases. Includes access to Federal Tax Coordinator, Federal Tax Handbook, United States Tax Reporter, RIA Tax Watch, Internal Revenue Code, tax regulations, federal tax cases, Estate Planning Library, and more.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Provides news reports and editorials on all facets of higher education in the United States, Canada, and abroad.
Information about topics of decisions, how the justices voted, rulings that overturned previous rulings, and case summaries by topic.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Through CILP, members of the legal field receive timely topical access to nearly 650 legal publications organized within 104 relevant subject headings. Also included are complete tables of contents from all journals indexed, as well as Bluebook citations.
UT Law only with NetID
Fastcase provides students with access to a full collection of cases, statutes, admin regs and constitutions, as well as most court rules and attorney general opinions.
Organized by country and provides detailed information (and links where available) on how and where to find codes, legislation, and, to a lesser extent, court decisions and administrative materials from jurisdictions around the world. Each country’s entry includes a brief description of its form of government and its legal history, together with detailed narrative on locating that country’s law, both by type of law (e.g. statutes, case opinions) and by subject (e.g. tax, environmental law). Also includes an alphabetical listing of major international treaties and conventions with helpful links and information on finding treaties in print.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Provides PDFs of full runs of law journals. Also includes the Federal Register, archival editions of the Code of Federal Regulations, treaties and agreements, state and federal session laws, the English Reports (full reprint), United States Supreme Court decisions, opinions of the United States Attorney General, American Law Institute materials, an archive of foreign and international legal resources, and much more.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Provides access to databases of full-text legal articles and indexed citations to legal articles and texts. Indexed materials include law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective covers 1908 – 1981. Many of the indexed citations to articles and texts also have links to locate the full text of the materials in UT ’s print and electronic collections.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Law360 provides current news and expert analysis of major litigation developments in U.S. federal district courts. Also included in its analysis are important lawsuits filed by the world’s top companies, significant U.S. federal court opinions, developments in class actions, transactions involving the top 250 U.S. law firms, and major initiatives made by state, federal, and international legislatures. Law360 content is also accessible via LexisNexis.
Law.com is the industry-leading media platform powering over 18 online U.S. national and regional award-winning legal publications that deliver news, rankings, reports, and strategy all designed with one purpose in mind: to give you the competitive intelligence to prepare for today and anticipate opportunities for future success.
Online version of the Leadership Directories’ “Yellow Book” series; allows searching and browsing within for people and organizations using a variety of criteria including name, job title, industry and geographical location. Contains profiles for decision makers and organizations in eight communities: Congress, Federal Government, State & Local Government, News Media, Law & Lobbying Firms, Companies, Nonprofits & Associations, and Courts.
The repository is a service of the University of Tennessee College of Law Library. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the faculty and staff of the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Comprehensive legal research system providing access to U.S. federal and state statutes, case law, news, treatises, and more.
UT Law only (password required)
The digital library provides the College of Law community with eBook and audiobook access to study aids, Tennessee primary authorities, and other legal titles.
Campus and Off-Campus with NETID
LLMC Digital is a collection of digitized historic legal material and government documents. It includes publications of state, federal, and territorial governments of the United States, as well as publications of the governments of Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and many other countries. It also includes Indigenous Law, international law, and multi-jurisdictional special focus collections.
Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Provides complete text of all NCLC treatises, plus updates, and integrates everything: chapters, appendices, supplemental pleadings, primary sources, and practice tools.
Search or browse the full text of journals currently published by Oxford University Press.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
PLI Plus is an online legal research database of authoritative Answer Books, Course Handbooks, Treatises, Legal Forms, and Program Transcripts.
Now searches the full text of bills, laws, bill tracking reports, and legislative histories, and searches the abstracts, titles, indexing information, and other bibliographic data for Congressional publications.
Includes bills & laws (1789 – present), committee prints, committee reports, committee hearings, House and Senate Documents, and the Congressional Record (all 1817 – present). Also includes Congressional Research Service reports, federal regulations, political news, and more.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Full-text legislative policy reports from the Congressional Research Service. Select “Advanced Search,” then the check the box for CRS Reports.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
ProQuest Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking, mostly from 1929 to the present but with selected additional documents dating back to the 1890s. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Regulatory histories for individual federal statutes and Executive Orders that compile pertinent Federal Register articles into a research-friendly workspace.
Supreme Court Insight Provides compilations of briefs, dockets, joint appendixes, oral arguments, opinions and other documents for Supreme Court cases. Precise filtering options allow you to customize each case history to meet your research needs.
Select “Advanced Search” and select the Serial Set check box under document types to “Search within” this collection. Search by document number, legislative number, or any combination of full text, subject descriptor, or bibliographic information. Includes more than 50,000 historical maps.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Quimbee provides expert-written case briefs, engaging video lessons, and a massive bank of practice questions. University of Tennessee College of Law students have unlimited, 24/7 access on desktop, mobile, or tablet devices.
Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), is a division of SSRN. SSRN allows authors to upload papers without charge, and any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free worldwide. SSRN also provides free subscriptions to all of our abstracting journals to users in developing countries on request. The vast majority of downloads of papers from the SSRN eLibrary are free.
Available to all web users
Searchable, full-text collection of records and briefs from United States Supreme Court cases from 1832 to 1978. Records and briefs from later cases are also available on microfiche; see a reference librarian for assistance in using the microfiche collection.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Tax Notes is a portfolio of publications offered by Tax Analysts, a nonprofit tax publisher. It provides comprehensive and impartial coverage of tax news, while its commentary contributes important voices to the discussion and understanding of tax policy.
First time users must register and create an account using your UTK email address. See Sign-In link at top of resource page.
Listed by topic and alphabetically and searchable by title.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
Access to Antitrust Law by Areeda & Hovenkamp, The Law of Lawyering by Hazard et al., and Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Campus and Off-Campus with NetID
West Academic Study Aids subscription provides students with online access to hundreds of study aids including case briefs, outlines, hornbooks, multiple choice questions, flash card, and audio titles. Authored by noted law professors, the subscription offers up-to-date information, advice, and tips for virtually every course you take. Students and faculty can create accounts using their campus e-mail address.
Comprehensive legal research system providing access to U.S. federal and state statutes, case law, news, treatises, and more.
UT Law only (password required)
WestPac includes case law, statutes, and regulations from all fifty states; federal case law, statutes (United States Code Annotated), and regulations (Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register); major secondary sources such as Black’s Law Dictionary, American Jurisprudence, and American Law Reports; Tennessee practice materials; Tennessee and general legal forms; and Tennessee legal journals and law reviews. Also includes access to KeyCite, a citation service that allows researchers to determine whether their case or statute is still “good law.”
Available on College of Law Library public-access computers
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Contact Us
Joel A. Katz Law Library
1505 W. Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
Phone: 865-974-7419
E-mail: lawref@utk.edu